Notes

You wouldn’t understand. You would just tell me to stop taking everything so seriously, and lighten up like I used to, and pull my weight in the team. But I can’t pull my weight. I’m not a Garrison hero, I’m not a top pilot, I’m not an expert engineer, I’m not a tech genius, I’m not an Altean princess or a badass royal advisor. I’m just Lance and I’m not good enough to keep up with any of you.
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Allura’s sighed, “Lance, now is not the time to be starting petty arguments about who is in the wrong, here –”

“Petty,” Lance repeated, his voice low and flat. “You think how I feel about this is petty," Lance was so, so done with all of this. “If you think I’m so useless, why don’t you just get a new Blue Paladin already?!” Lance snapped.

The very fact that they didn’t notice how their words affected him just hurt even more. Other than Hunk, they didn’t notice his frustration and the growing unhappiness that twisted like a blade in his gut every time the other paladins shut him out, or Allura shut him down, or Coran cast a long look of disappointment his way. They noticed every single thing he did wrong, but not once did they congratulate him for getting something right.